This week we're back with a new episode on Atomic Blonde! Join us as we learn about breakdancing in East Berlin, Stasi defectors, the 1989 East German student protests, Cold War British traitors, and more!

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Nicole Sperling, "How Atomic Blonde Got Its Most Insane Action Sequence," GQ, available at https://www.gq.com/story/atomic-blonde-david-leitch Peter Debruge, "How the Atomic Blonde Team Pulled Off the Incredible One-Take Action Sequence," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2017/artisans/production/atomic-blonde-10-minute-action-scene-charlize-theron-1202512814/ Atomic Blonde, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406566/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Blonde

Philip Oltermann, "Enemies Everywhere: Photos Show the Absurdity of Life Under the Stasi," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/enemies-everywhere-photos-show-absurdity-life-under-stasi-east-germany Sean Lavery, "The Personal Side of an East German Spy's Defection, in 'Betrayal'," New York Magazine, August 5 2020.

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Paul Lashmar, Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv182jrfz.16 Chapman Pincher, "Their Trade is Treachery: A Retrospective," in Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 edited by Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy, 281-288 (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgsh7.23 Richard Aldrich, "British Intelligence During the Cold War," in Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989, edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach, 149-69 (Stanford University Press, 2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsdp7h.9 Timothy Heritage and Polina Ivanova, "George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98," Reuters (26 December 2020), https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-people-george-blake/george-blake-last-in-line-of-cold-war-spies-who-betrayed-britain-dies-at-98-idUSKBN29009J Richard W. Stevenson, "John Cairncross, Fifth Briton In Soviet Spy Ring, Dies at 82," New York Times (10 October 1995) https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/10/world/john-cairncross-fifth-briton-in-soviet-spy-ring-dies-at-82.html

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https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/lets-talk-about-the-ending-of-atomic-blonde.html Andrew Roth, "Lady Park of Monmouth Obituary: Senior MI6 officer, diplomat and Tory peer, she was known as the 'Queen of Spies'" The Guardian 28 March 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/daphne-park-obituary

BBC Nine O'Clock News, October 10th 1989: https://youtu.be/wXE8vgbk1Bo?t=976 Susanne Lohmann, "The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989-1991," World Politics 47, 1 (1994) Marko Grdesic, "Television and Protest in East Germany's Revolution, 1989-1990," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47, 1 (2014) David Remnick, "East Germans Stage Protest," Washington Post, 8 October 1989. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/10/08/east-germans-stage-protest/4bd87ba6-de59-43ee-9aab-1b6fdb03bd77/